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Famous Quotes

"It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'"

Malcolm Turnbull on Politics

More quotes about Politics

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

Malcolm Turnbull on John F. Kennedy

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

Malcolm Turnbull on Mark Twain

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

Malcolm Turnbull on Plato

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

Malcolm Turnbull on Milton Friedman

"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

Malcolm Turnbull on Joseph Stalin

More quotes by Malcolm Turnbull

"The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management."

"It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in."

"To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry."

"We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right."

"China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it."